| *Friends Quotes* |
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| Memories are funny things. So selective, and yet you still remember disappointments and hurts from your childhood along with good times and holidays. Why do we want to forget pain and remember happiness? Happiness may feel good, but it teaches us nothing. We learn so much from being hurt and yet we seek to avoid it. Do you still blush when you think of a time you were embarassed? Do you still feel a sense of rejection when you think of the first person you liked that didn't like you back? Do you remember the thrill of that first long walk in the rain? -Excerpt from a letter from Ben Nodine A loving heart is the truest widsom. -Charles Dickens Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. -Charles Dickens Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -Richard Bach Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. -Anonymous Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes. -Unknown Remember the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -Cindy Lew Life is sweet because of the friends we've made. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. -Marian Anderson Real friends are those who upon watching you make a fool of yourself do not feel that the job was done permanently. -Anonymous A good friend is one who comes in when the world has gone out. -Anonymous A good friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you've become, and still gently invites you to grow. Friends bring heaven a little closer to our hearts. A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memories fail. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. -Dumas the Younger In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King Jr. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for a smile is the beginning of love. -Mother Teresa The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblessed. -Homer If i accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. -French Proverb The road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish Proverb I have been both wise and foolish. I have been loved and betrayed and abandoned, and much to my despair I have unwittingly wounded others and humbly beg for their forgiveness. I have forgiven those who have hurt me, as I pray they will forgive me for allowing them to hurt me. I have loved much, and given my whole heart and soul. And even when badly wounded have continued on the path with faith and with hope, and even blind belief, toward love and freedom. The journey continues, easier than it has been... To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart. Wherever you may be, it is your friends who make your world. Remember to make space in your life - on the inside to listen to God, on the outside to listen to others and let them be them. Your friendship is the light I carry with me in my heart wherever I wander. Friends until forever. |